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Theo Francis

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<p>Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance &amp; some accounting, retirement &amp; corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn&#39;t me.)
I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.</p>

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    Spring, spring

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    UC designers: When I tap or click a search button, I really expect to be able to type into a search field immediately. I don&amp;#39;t expect a new grid of brightly colored things to tap or click on, with an idle search field somewhere among them that I have to tap/click on to use. Does anyone really want that?

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    Anyone in logistics or residential delivery: Tracking info for a major US delivery service said a package was put on a truck early Saturday morning and was out for delivery. Web &amp;amp; app still say it&amp;#39;s on the same truck (same driver name!), still out for delivery, still being delivered Saturday (April 25), no failed attempts, never checked back into a depot. Clearly the info is wrong. Do these companies genuinely not have automated systems in place to notice when a delivery goes aw...

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    My coworkers at The Wall Street Journal have analyzed video of Alex Pretti&#39;s killing. The link should be a gift link — let me know if it doesn&#39;t work that way. &gt; Bystander footage appears to tell a different story. A frame-by-frame review by The Wall Street Journal shows a federal officer pulling a handgun away from Pretti. Less than a second later, an agent fires several rounds. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-contradict-u-s-account-of-minneapolis-shooting-by-federal-agents-fbe...